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Ford drastically cuts workforce at F-150 Lightning EV plant amid ‘much slower’ demand

Baua Electric

Starting April 1, one-third of the workforce will remain on-site at Ford’s Rouge EV plant in Michigan. Enoch told The Detroit Free Press that 700 workers will be transferred to its Michigan Assembly plant to help build the Bronco and Ranger. New electric SUVs like the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX are joining the market.

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GM to boost EV and AV investments 75% to $35B through 2025; new battery plants

Green Car Congress

The announcement builds on GM’s initial commitment announced in March 2020 to invest $20 billion from 2020 through 2025, including capital, engineering expenses and other development costs, to accelerate its transition to EVs and AVs. GM manufactures its fuel cells in Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan, in a joint venture with Honda.

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Honda demonstrates advanced vehicle-to-pedestrian and vehicle-to-motorcycle connected vehicle safety technologies

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Honda also has been conducting advanced research into Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) systems and is a partner in the Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Program conducted by the US Department of Transportation, including the Department’s Safety Pilot Model Deployment test program, currently underway in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

Sacrificing much, GM spent billions and billions of 1980s dollars on technology and engineering entities at the behest of CEO Roger Smith, who wanted to transform The General into a company more resembling a conglomerate like GE. Acura followed with hard drive navigation in the 1996 3.5 to have a complete set of Guidestar maps.

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ArcelorMittal opens tailored blanks operation in Detroit

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By combining different steels, or using different thicknesses, engineers can finely tune the performance of the part to meet different load case criteria. Together, ArcelorMittal and Honda co-engineered the industry’s first hot-stamped, laser-welded door ring found in the 2014 Acura MDX.

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Cadillac’s ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030

Charged EVs

It’s the first of GM’s brands to dispense with internal combustion engines. Meanwhile, cells for the small number of Ultium-based EVs GM builds this year, including not only the Cadillac Lyriq but the GMC Hummer EV, will come from a low-volume pilot production line set up at GM’s Tech Center in Warren, Michigan.